Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It will usually include paramedics, in some cases the Coast Guard and in others people who are registered as advanced paramedics with the pre-hospital emergency care council.

I would be disinclined to take it too far because while we all want to ensure a doctor is not prosecuted on the way to an emergency, those people are not necessarily trained in how to drive or in defensive driving and I would be afraid of creating a new loophole that people would use. We have seen some examples with the quashing of the fixed charge notices. I am disinclined to create loopholes. I will ask my official, Mr. Treacy, to comment.